Tournament: Arizona State HDSHC Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Chloe Chun | Judge: Amanda Nobra
Standard : Maximizing expected wellbeing
1. Experience is how we understand our existence. Pain is universally bad and pleasure is universally good.
Nagel '86. Thomas ~"The View From Nowhere", 1986~
I shall defend the unsurprising claim that sensory pleasure is good and pain bad,
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such cases. There can be no reason to reject the appearances here.
2. Governments must aggregate the wellbeing of all because their policies benefit some and harm others. The only non-arbitrary way to prioritize is by helping the most amount of people.
C1: climate change and ssp
ESA 20
ESA, 5/01/2020, "Space technology helps mitigate climate change", https://www.esa.int/Applications/Telecommunications_Integrated_Applications/Technology_Transfer/Space_technology_helps_mitigate_climate_change
To maximise the amount of electricity from new wind turbines, the French company Leosphere
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result which should encourage you to stick with it," says Mr Zachariah.
And: private companies can reduce the costs
Smith '04 (Arthur P. Smith received a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from Cornell University in 1991. He currently manages a software development group for the research journals of the American Physical Society. The Case for Solar Power From Space, National Space Society, 2004, Web. https://space.nss.org/the-case-for-solar-power-from-space/)====
Lower launch costs are a major goal of all space advocates. The X-Prize contenders, Space-X, even the major aerospace EEIV programs all have the intention of significantly reducing launch costs.Whether any rocket-based system will succeed remains to be seen. Perhaps we will have to wait for space elevators to see much reduction in the cost to orbit. But there are some indicators that we could see some improvement over the next decade with a sufficiently large and competitive launch market.
Competition in the commercial launch market already has some providers such as Sea Launch offering
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for such an approach are less dependent on reducing launch costs from Earth.
Allowing companies to pursue stellar mining makes further exploration much more possible and also decreases asteroid risk.
Ursul and Ursul 20 ~Arkady Ursul, Ecology @ Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Tatiana Ursul, Philosophy @ National Research Technical University, "On the Path to Space Mining and a Cosmic Sustainable Way of Socio-Natural Interaction," Philosophy and Cosmology, http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2020/02/PhC_25_UrsulUrsul.pdf~~ /Triumph Debate
The beginning of the interaction between mining engineering, mining, and astronautics did not
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of a further continuation of mankind existence (Ursul and Ursul, 2019).
Space mining is necessary for acquiring platinum and the water for further space exploration.
Anderson et al 18 ~Scot Anderson, Partner @ Hogan Lovells, Korey Christensen, Partner @ Hogan Lovells, Julia LaManna, Associate @ Hogan Lovells, "The Development of Natural Resources in Outer Space," Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02646811.2018.1507343~~ /Triumph Debate
As the world's population grows, increasing demand for the planet's limited resources, governments
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moon and asteroids can and should proceed under existing international and domestic law.